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Chicago examiner jk the weather m ivsgchicago and vicinity â€” fair px y tuesday and probably wednesday ! t continued warm moderate south ) _? ' iws erly wind s ijtff **> t vol viii no 84 a m tuesday march 29 1910 14 pages registered in v s patent office jl you mr renter a f\mh w by not buy a home of your own uc'/i i ijs you will find many bargains in the r j \ f examiner want ads watch for the %- j vj special wednesday } j m real estate edition â‚¬ price one cent ?â€ž e 7 e " d b * c " ri Â«' 30 cents per month 500 at y m c a join to raise 350,000 in 1 2 days whirlwind campaign begun must get over 1,000 an hour day and night map out whole city huge dial at 68 monroe st will record daily results teams to compete three hundred and lift y thousand dclla.-s in twelve daysf that't i-_orc than a thousand dollar an hour for every hour of every working day and night fi'om march 30 to april 12 in clusive and yet that's the goal l wilbur mess.r and lis associates of the central v m c a of Chicago have set to reach hi a tv-si irl wind campaign inaugurated yes terday at b noon l.neheon in special cam paign hcadin'.-n tcis opened yesterday at the corner of monrco and state streets three hundred and fifty thousand dollars in twelve days nothing like it has ever been attempted even by ihe.-e men who have grown used to doing bi things for the young men of tiiis city yet the onng men's christian association of Chicago purposes to realize that sum in a record-breaking campaign to complete the greatest endowment and an i niversiiy fund ever achieved through pop ular pled-.es this undertaking is to signalize the fifty j second an iv-rsai-y of the association audi to conclude in notable fashion the semi i centennial fund started two years ago by j john <;. sbedd which lias grown steadily 10 a present total of 831,000 paid or pledged by chicagoans 500 enlist for crusade five hundred men have ecu organized for i'iie present task five association de partments in as many sections of the city will lie directly benefited by hie donations rÂ«i-i>:vril important improvements al each of these points await a successful issue ot the undertaking harry a wheeler vice president of the uxion trust company is general citato man indorsing the movement and co-op erating with the large working force the association litis enlisted for the canvass forty prominent business meu headed by john v farwell who will constitute a metropolitan committee aiding and for warding the subscription by personal ap peals to the big business interests every where in the city an unique method of advising the general public of the progress of the campaign has iieen hit upon in an immense clock to be displayed outside of the headquarters at 08 monroe street upon whose dial the sum total of s:_r.o,ooo will he divided into tbir ty-ave degrees of 10,000 each and an enormous minute baud will he moved ahead at i.'jo each day recording the total amount of subscriptions received the present total of the 831,000 pledged to the young men's christian association is made up of only t."^i individual gifts three of these were for 100,000 the others for lesser amounts the complement of 350,000 to he raised during the twelve working days intervening hel veen march 90 and april 11 will more than realize the original million dollar goal international chief in charge c s ward internatiiin.il secretary who is the originator of the short term can vass plan and who has successfully di rected some sixty campaigns of this kind is in Chicago to direct the field operations the new enterprise is distinctly a short term campaign to its application is credited a large share of the notable build ing activity of the last few years througu ontjlie country although similar short-term canvasses have heen carried to success in baltimore pittsburg syracuse kichinoud cleveland kansas city spokane and tacoma no project ever undertaken by the young mens christian association has equaled in magnitude chicago's campaign to the general iuterest in the success of the complete project is added depart ment rivalry forty-five teams dividing the city into geographical sections will strive for leadership a banner will desig nate the table of the most successful de partment each day at the noon rally luncheon at headquarters a badge of honor will be given the individual report ing the largest list or contributions for the previous dav three hundred and fifty thousand dollars in twelve days watch the clock steel plant hit by bomb ens Chicago sympathisers of pitts bars strikers believed guilty the dynamite bomb made its appearance in east Chicago yesterday an uncom pleted section of the american steel foundry structure nt ono hundred and thirty-eighth street and michigan avenue was demolished none of the workmen was injured as the bomb throwers selected the midnight lunch hour when all the employes were iu the main building to set off the bomb for several months the sundry company has been the object of tacks by bomb throwers some weeks o three cars of structural iron were own from the tracks near south Chicago u one occasion a bomb was exploded fin er another car of heavy si rnetnra i mate ial consigned to the east chicags plant it is believed by officials of the company that the bombs have bee thrown bv sym pathizers of union workers 01 strike at another plant oi the concern in pittsburg gary grabs two cities in war of annexation ordinance is passed to take in both east Chicago and hammond peace meeting to-day gary ind march b the annexation fever has become so prevalent iu gary hammond and east Chicago that the citi zens of the three cities expect to wake up iny inornbig to find tlremsclves in the clutches of some little town ou the swamps 0 the kankakee the first scheme for the annexation and amalgamation of the cities of the north western corner of the state was brought about monday a week ago when mayor a g schucker of east Chicago and his coun cil men without warning gobbled 111 the cities of hammond and whiting the ex citement had not subsided when rumors were heard that the east Chicago council at its weekly session to-night was to annex gary civic pride was so strong in the qpw i steel city 11 at the news it was to be swal i lowed auied mayor thomas e knotts to '. ger busy hastily convening the members ! of the city council he caused two separate ordinances annexing east Chicago and ; hammond to be passed i a meeting has been called for to-morrow at east Chicago at which time mayor kr:',tts of gary mayor sclilicker of east Chicago mayor becker of hammond and i mayor v a parks of whiting and a com i mittee of four to be appointed by each ! mayor making sixteen will discuss the an nexatlon and amalgamation propositions 160,000 miners at crisis deles'iitcs refuse avagre scale offer and threaten to strike j cincinnati 0 march 2s delegates representing itjo.ooo miners iu the bitu minous coal fields of ohio indiana and western pennsylvania to-day refused the wage scale offered by the miue ow-ners the leaders declare there will be a strike iwi.hin two weeks unless the owne grant ithe original demands of the miners there will be a conference of the trl-state own jers to-morrow morning to receive the fital answer of the miners the owners have repeatedly stated that they would not yield the wage scale demanded Taft near death in auto collision occni-s while president is speeding to depot new voiik march 28 president Taft had a narrow escape from possible serious injury late to-uight while speeding in au automobile for the pennsylvania ferry t ihe foot of west twenty-third street on bis return to washington from the dinner of bis class iu yale at the university club as liis automobile neared eighth avenue a south-bound eighth avenue car started across the street the chauffeur turned the machlue but could not stop and for half a block the car and the auto skidded scraping sides menelik is still alive latest report of abyssinian rnler's heath proves unfounded home march 28 the report of the death of king menelik of abyssinia said to have occurred sunday is officially de nied a dispatch from addis abeba says that empress taitoa is still nnrsing the king but that a regency is now carrying on the government the capital is over flowing with soldiers loyal to ras tesama the regent and 10.000 more are expected soon such preparations aim to prevent complications on the death of king menelik which is expected to occur at 1 auy moment monaco gets self rule prince charles heretofore absolute monnrcli issues decree monte caklo march 28 prince al bert honore charles uutil now absolute in the government of monaco the smallest state of europe to-day decreed the elec tion of a parliament or municipal eouueii through universal stiftrage he reserves the right to select the mayor but grants further liberty of the press the decree is a concession to the wince's some 1.200 subjects who recently demanded a consti tutional government bribed voted for percy mississippi legislator says he ac cepted ifotoj charge denied jack-so miss march 28 sensational testimony given before the hinds county grand jury by slate senator theodore ijilbo that he accepted a bribe ot ifo-lo from 1 c ijulauey of issaquena county to vote for 1-croy percy in the recent senatorial contest is to-day the sole topic of discussion iu legislative circles here kulaney denies that he gave a bribe a grand jury subpoena has been issued for governor noel swedish princess is born third child ol royal p;iir an noiiiiccd nt stockholm stockholm sweden march 2s crown princess gnstave adolph of sweden formerly princess margaret ofl conuaught gave birth to a daughter to day the other children of the crown prince and princess are prince gustavo i adolph born in 1906 and prince sigvarjl â– a year younger mrs spender-clay a mother special cnble to the examiner l.nmiux march _>. a ilnugbter v as horn to-day tc mrs spender-clay ,\ o e jfore her marriage was miss pauline asior she is the daughter of william waldo.-f astor supreme justice brewer drops dead end comes after night of study on legal problems with records in his hand : heart disease is blamed ; death likely to mean change in ruling by highest bench in important cases washington march 2s david tosiah brewer associate justice of the supreme court of the united states dropped dead in the bathroom of his home 1023 sixteenth street a few minutes after 11 o'clock to night heart disease is believed to have been the cause of death justice brewer apparently had been in the best of health he was seventy-three years old and had been a member of the supreme court since december 1889 he was born in smyrna asia minor where his parents were residing as missionaries he was a graduate of yale college he was appointed to the supreme bench from kan sas may affect important cases it is within the range of possibilities that the death of justice brewer will have far-reaching effects on important cases now pending before the supreme conrt justice brewer was one of the progressive members of the court and in clined to a liberal construction of the la ws he sat in both the tobacco and standard oil cases both of which are on the eve of being decided it has been the general expectation that the vote of the court in both the tobacco and standard ou cases would be close with justice brewer now dead there is a lively possibility that conditions may be ! reversed one way or the other oter the j decisions as they would have been ren j dered had justice brewer lived solicitor general i_loyd bowers is gen erally regarded as in line as successor to justice brewer overwork blamed for death close application to the work of the su preme court in the standard oil and tobacco cases undoubtedly hastened the death of the associate justice he bad been devoting himself ever since the recent argu ments to the study of the oi trust eases and he had a volume of the record of the case in his hand when death overtook him he had goiife into the bathroom to pre pare bis bath after having devoted the night to study a few minutes later mrs brewer second wife of the justice heard him feebly calling for aid when she reached him be had become unconscious he died before the physician dr h a taylor who was summoned arrived dr taylor declared death was due to heart failure justice brewer had been in his usual good health all day ami had taken his accustomed walk this afternoon district judge ashley m gould was summoned immediately by the family and took charge of affairs in the stricken household ; promoted under cleveland in 1870 he was elected to the supreme bench of kansas for a term of six years and was re-elected in 1870 and isb2 duriug president grover cleveland's first term he was appointed judge of the cir cuit court of the united states for the i eighth district where he remained until ' his appointment to the rmpreme bench of the united states in 1889 this was in ! december justice brewer was named to succeed associate justice stanley matthews re moved by death at the time of his ap pointinent justice brewer was in his tiftv 1 j second year he would have been seventy j i three bad he lived until june 20 next justice brewer was twice married his first wife died in the sixties leaving an only daughter t 0 comfort him his second i marriage took place in his sixty-fourth year when he was wed to miss emma m mott of burlington vt who was then i principal of the morse public school in i washington ; during his incumbency in office justice brewer gained the confidence of the great mass of american people he was out spoken in his opinions of public matters as much so as compatible with his station opposed delayed justice about six weeks ago he gave out a some what remarkable interview iu which he discussed without reservation the evils of delayed justice the remedy the character and mental requirements of good judges and lawyers and giving his views also ou public ownership of public utilities he of all his associates was the only one to come out flat-footed in favor of limiting the number and the grounds for appeal justice brewer was for woman suffrage and agains-t au income tax on wealth he was a man of broad learning and had a brilliant mind he held many positions of honor aside from ii,e judicial lie was president of the venezuelan boundary i commission appointed by president clevo ! land member of the arbitration tribunal to j settle boundary between british guiana j and venezuela orator at the bicentennial ! yale university 1901 president liticrna i tional congress ol lawyers and jurists i st louis 1904 held degree of ll i from i low college washburn college vale i'ni vcrsity state university of wisconsin u'ealeyan university university of ver mom and hnwdoin college in a public address iu i!h>7 justice brewer prophesied an age of marvels from 1010 to 1980 justice brewer had several clashes with former president roosevell when the lai ter as in office he created something of a sensation in 191 when be declared in 1 piinlii speed mat koosevell was play ii hide nnd seek will the presideutlii ! nomination lie said he would not vote for mr roosevelt's nomination if be bad a vote _>:, the matter justice 1'.r0 or was ihe second oldest member of the eohrt justice harlan only being his senior alexander moody slain by arsenic in food wife and coachman under investigation wealthy man who died in convulsions february 20 victim of plot says coroner __â€”_â€”_â€”- ________ ; for one month detectives have watched the home and dogged the footsteps of mrs anna moody her former coachman peter peterson and agnes hartwick her maid in an attempt to solve the mystery of the death of alexander moody brother-in-law of congressman william j moxley and secretary of - the moody & waters company bakers moody died after eating hamburger steak which was cooked for him by agnes hartwick on the order of mrs moody he was killed by arsenic and an examination of the meat which was not eaten showed that it contained enough of the poison to kill a dozen persons moody's stomach upon chemical analysis was found to contain enough arsenic to cause his death although moody died february 20 the investigation which ap pears to reveal one of the most complex murder problems that the po lice have ever faced was kept secret until yesterday then the search was made public just at the time the police were beginning to gather together and analyze evidence which they hoped would be strong enough to cause one or more arrests on a charge of murder it is probable now that no arrest will ever be made in the case as the police while morally certain that moody was murdered say their investigation has brought out no direct evidence against any of the persons suspected coroner convinced moody was murdered coroner hoffman last night maintained that his office and the po lice had worked up a good case and said that within a few days he hoped to be able to secure evidence which would cause the arrest of two persons we know that moody was murdered and we suspect that one or two and probably three persons had a hand in his poisoning said â€¢ the coroner i believe there wilt be arrests made in a few days which will cause a sensation all of yesterday and last night detectives swarmed around the moody home at 210 seeley avenue for one month the police depart ment has kept track of every inmate of the house and of every person who entered or left it the evidence they have gathered in typewrit ten form covers several hundred pages , all this matter is in the hands of the coroner the coroner while refusing to name outright the persons whom he suspects of the mur der says he is pretty certain who did it but with all of his sus â– picions and evidence he has refused so far to order the police to â– â– make arrests assistant chief schuettler who has had charge of the police end of the inquiry also refuses to take the responsibility of placing the suspects in cells moody only one to eat the poisoned meat after moody tlied the maid who served the hamburger steak was slightly ill she said she had dipped bread in the meat gravy and had eaten it but did not eat any of the steak no other member of the moody family ate any of the meat on february 0 the other members of the family are mrs moody a laughter florence sixteen years old and two sons frank and alex ander jr aged twenty-three and twenty-one years in a statement to the coroner mrs moody said that no member of the family with the exception of mr moody ever ate moat for breakfast one of l lie strange features of the case according to coroner hoff man is the fact that agnes hartwick the maid after being told that a poison victim and his icifc â€” photograph showing them white driving â€” and their residence which is said lo have been a scene of revelry nightly since his death a month ago z%f x^?<s^j_^?_2_*s_r aged woman beaten rich youth is held orby hunter prominent in 1 hyde park accused of bur glary with violence orby hunter twenty-three years old member of a prominent hyde park family insurance man and fashionable dresser will be given a preliminary hearing thurs day on a charge of robbery alleged to have been accomplished by beating a lame wom an into insensibility he has been posi tively identified the police say by a wom an who was an eyewitness to a part of the crime the victims of the robbery were a e gardner and his wife who have a confee tiouery store at 1515 east fifty-third street and who live upstairs they were beaten and a purse containing 235 was taken from them by two men who fol lowed them from their store to their flat on the night of february 11 j miss frieda lystrom a milliner who l'ves across the hall from the gardners was aroused by mrs gardner's screams she ran into t'he hall and saw a man rush from the gardners flat mrs gardner lay iu the open doorway another man stepped over mrs gard ner's prostrate form with a smile ou his face miss f-ystrom savs that man was hunter hunter then lived at the holland hotel just across fifty-third street from the gardner hal hunter was arrested a few days after the robbery and placed under 2,000 bonds by judge fry before whom his preliminary hearing will be held the fact ol\t!be ar rest did not become public until yesterday however since his arrest hunter has moved to a boarding house at 5427 washington avenue he was seen there last night but while protesting his innocence refused to discuss the charge acainst him he is a son of the late it j o hunter oue of the best known insurance men iu Chicago who died about a year ago the sou is employed by llerrlek it auerbuch successors to his father at iso lo salle street he is a member of the homewood golf club and a graduate of the cui verstiy high school his mother and two sisters misses hou nic and olive are on their wity ddfl-c from paris having learned of the charge thev closed ihe family home a stately colonial structure at 5125 jefferson avenue when they weni abroad last fall orville wright falls aviator i injured by 1 00-koot plunge willi machine movi'oimkuy ala march _:,Â«. the aero lane being used by the wright brothers at the nractb grounds near this city to day 101l from a height of joo feet but sliuc easily in soft plowed ground lr villi wright who nas driving was nnl hurl nor was the mai-liine injured the descent being in a measure under control t * council acts to end loop fire traps aim at campbell removal of all ladder es capes and substitution of stairways is one of the five reforms demanded knight ordered to elevate oak park line tracks in austin by dec 31 1911 fails to get thirty-year franchise ordinance passed unanimous ly after fight which has lasted through 5 councils grade crossings doomed what the council did five drastic ordinances regulating inspection of fire traps and escapes introduced oak park l thirty-year extension franchise defeated ordinance compelling elevation of austin tracks of oak park road passed resolution censuring building de partment for laxity in its inspections introduced milk pasteurizing and investigation commission authorized loop fire traps nnd flimsy ladder lire escapes such as are credited with re sponsibility for the appalling loss of life iu the fish holacaust last friday yester day were the objects of attack from half a doieii official quarters com hiding vith introduction of live drastic regulating < di uauces before the city council i th even ing one of the incidents of the council fight ou tire traps was a vigorous attack upon ihe building department by alderman emerson of the kighth ward in which commissioner murdock campbell and his department were called to account reform measures introduced here are the measures introduced at the council meeting nil of which were re . ferred to the committee on buildings with the recommendation that they be given immediate attention order demanding removal of all ladder flre escapes and substitution of stair way escapes by alderman fisher ordinance providing for construction ot overhead bridges connecting each floor of all buildings over three stories with adjoining buildings ry alderman kenna order that building commissioner make immediate investigation of and make a special report to the council on these buildings goldberg's furniture store nineteenth and state streets colum bus theater nineteenth street and wabash avenue fish furniture store nineteenth and state streets alhambra theater nineteenth and state streets by alderman britton order to corporation counsel brnndage to institute proceedings at once agnlnst all violators of the flre and building regulations by alderman lones kesoiutiou proi iding for a thorough iu restlgatlon of the fish fire by a com mittee to he appointed hy mayor busse by alderman emerson emerson hits campbell in addition to several sharp shots ar ; ho building department iu his resolutions alderman emerson made a concluding statement referring to buftdin commissioner murdoch c-rftt^ue.fc if it is found that the fault h t terrible loss of life is not tiit be of the building department the rcpo ; . â– this committee will so show said alder man emerson if on the contrary 1t is shown to be the result of his incompetence he should step down and out to make y for somebody who is competent then alderman jones sprang to the de fense of the building department he de dared that the building department had too few inspectors to do the work properly the department now has but twenty-si inspectors again.st a corps of forty inspec tors last year said the aldermau and yet the department to-day has 80,080,000 worth of new buildings to inspect itjjalnit 05,000,000 a year ago alderman jones is target well i don't waul to make any insin uations said alderman emerson iu re ply i won't mention any names but i will say that a certain aldermau who is chairman of the buildings committee got permits from the building department to build three frame buildings that i do not consider safe last year iu view of the fact that alderman lones j is chairman of the committee named and that alderman emerson could have re ferred to nobody else in ids charge of bias the alderman referred to grew red and | whit by turns while his celleag-.i-s laughed immoderately council orders knight to elevate tracks by 1912 clarence a knight's hope of getting a thirty year franchise for a axe and one half mile extension ol his elevated rail roadâ€”the Chicago and oak pa _;â€” in continued on 2d pago 2d column . l

Chicago examiner jk the weather m ivsgchicago and vicinity â€” fair px y tuesday and probably wednesday ! t continued warm moderate south ) _? ' iws erly wind s ijtff **> t vol viii no 84 a m tuesday march 29 1910 14 pages registered in v s patent office jl you mr renter a f\mh w by not buy a home of your own uc'/i i ijs you will find many bargains in the r j \ f examiner want ads watch for the %- j vj special wednesday } j m real estate edition â‚¬ price one cent ?â€ž e 7 e " d b * c " ri Â«' 30 cents per month 500 at y m c a join to raise 350,000 in 1 2 days whirlwind campaign begun must get over 1,000 an hour day and night map out whole city huge dial at 68 monroe st will record daily results teams to compete three hundred and lift y thousand dclla.-s in twelve daysf that't i-_orc than a thousand dollar an hour for every hour of every working day and night fi'om march 30 to april 12 in clusive and yet that's the goal l wilbur mess.r and lis associates of the central v m c a of Chicago have set to reach hi a tv-si irl wind campaign inaugurated yes terday at b noon l.neheon in special cam paign hcadin'.-n tcis opened yesterday at the corner of monrco and state streets three hundred and fifty thousand dollars in twelve days nothing like it has ever been attempted even by ihe.-e men who have grown used to doing bi things for the young men of tiiis city yet the onng men's christian association of Chicago purposes to realize that sum in a record-breaking campaign to complete the greatest endowment and an i niversiiy fund ever achieved through pop ular pled-.es this undertaking is to signalize the fifty j second an iv-rsai-y of the association audi to conclude in notable fashion the semi i centennial fund started two years ago by j john :vril important improvements al each of these points await a successful issue ot the undertaking harry a wheeler vice president of the uxion trust company is general citato man indorsing the movement and co-op erating with the large working force the association litis enlisted for the canvass forty prominent business meu headed by john v farwell who will constitute a metropolitan committee aiding and for warding the subscription by personal ap peals to the big business interests every where in the city an unique method of advising the general public of the progress of the campaign has iieen hit upon in an immense clock to be displayed outside of the headquarters at 08 monroe street upon whose dial the sum total of s:_r.o,ooo will he divided into tbir ty-ave degrees of 10,000 each and an enormous minute baud will he moved ahead at i.'jo each day recording the total amount of subscriptions received the present total of the 831,000 pledged to the young men's christian association is made up of only t."^i individual gifts three of these were for 100,000 the others for lesser amounts the complement of 350,000 to he raised during the twelve working days intervening hel veen march 90 and april 11 will more than realize the original million dollar goal international chief in charge c s ward internatiiin.il secretary who is the originator of the short term can vass plan and who has successfully di rected some sixty campaigns of this kind is in Chicago to direct the field operations the new enterprise is distinctly a short term campaign to its application is credited a large share of the notable build ing activity of the last few years througu ontjlie country although similar short-term canvasses have heen carried to success in baltimore pittsburg syracuse kichinoud cleveland kansas city spokane and tacoma no project ever undertaken by the young mens christian association has equaled in magnitude chicago's campaign to the general iuterest in the success of the complete project is added depart ment rivalry forty-five teams dividing the city into geographical sections will strive for leadership a banner will desig nate the table of the most successful de partment each day at the noon rally luncheon at headquarters a badge of honor will be given the individual report ing the largest list or contributions for the previous dav three hundred and fifty thousand dollars in twelve days watch the clock steel plant hit by bomb ens Chicago sympathisers of pitts bars strikers believed guilty the dynamite bomb made its appearance in east Chicago yesterday an uncom pleted section of the american steel foundry structure nt ono hundred and thirty-eighth street and michigan avenue was demolished none of the workmen was injured as the bomb throwers selected the midnight lunch hour when all the employes were iu the main building to set off the bomb for several months the sundry company has been the object of tacks by bomb throwers some weeks o three cars of structural iron were own from the tracks near south Chicago u one occasion a bomb was exploded fin er another car of heavy si rnetnra i mate ial consigned to the east chicags plant it is believed by officials of the company that the bombs have bee thrown bv sym pathizers of union workers 01 strike at another plant oi the concern in pittsburg gary grabs two cities in war of annexation ordinance is passed to take in both east Chicago and hammond peace meeting to-day gary ind march b the annexation fever has become so prevalent iu gary hammond and east Chicago that the citi zens of the three cities expect to wake up iny inornbig to find tlremsclves in the clutches of some little town ou the swamps 0 the kankakee the first scheme for the annexation and amalgamation of the cities of the north western corner of the state was brought about monday a week ago when mayor a g schucker of east Chicago and his coun cil men without warning gobbled 111 the cities of hammond and whiting the ex citement had not subsided when rumors were heard that the east Chicago council at its weekly session to-night was to annex gary civic pride was so strong in the qpw i steel city 11 at the news it was to be swal i lowed auied mayor thomas e knotts to '. ger busy hastily convening the members ! of the city council he caused two separate ordinances annexing east Chicago and ; hammond to be passed i a meeting has been called for to-morrow at east Chicago at which time mayor kr:',tts of gary mayor sclilicker of east Chicago mayor becker of hammond and i mayor v a parks of whiting and a com i mittee of four to be appointed by each ! mayor making sixteen will discuss the an nexatlon and amalgamation propositions 160,000 miners at crisis deles'iitcs refuse avagre scale offer and threaten to strike j cincinnati 0 march 2s delegates representing itjo.ooo miners iu the bitu minous coal fields of ohio indiana and western pennsylvania to-day refused the wage scale offered by the miue ow-ners the leaders declare there will be a strike iwi.hin two weeks unless the owne grant ithe original demands of the miners there will be a conference of the trl-state own jers to-morrow morning to receive the fital answer of the miners the owners have repeatedly stated that they would not yield the wage scale demanded Taft near death in auto collision occni-s while president is speeding to depot new voiik march 28 president Taft had a narrow escape from possible serious injury late to-uight while speeding in au automobile for the pennsylvania ferry t ihe foot of west twenty-third street on bis return to washington from the dinner of bis class iu yale at the university club as liis automobile neared eighth avenue a south-bound eighth avenue car started across the street the chauffeur turned the machlue but could not stop and for half a block the car and the auto skidded scraping sides menelik is still alive latest report of abyssinian rnler's heath proves unfounded home march 28 the report of the death of king menelik of abyssinia said to have occurred sunday is officially de nied a dispatch from addis abeba says that empress taitoa is still nnrsing the king but that a regency is now carrying on the government the capital is over flowing with soldiers loyal to ras tesama the regent and 10.000 more are expected soon such preparations aim to prevent complications on the death of king menelik which is expected to occur at 1 auy moment monaco gets self rule prince charles heretofore absolute monnrcli issues decree monte caklo march 28 prince al bert honore charles uutil now absolute in the government of monaco the smallest state of europe to-day decreed the elec tion of a parliament or municipal eouueii through universal stiftrage he reserves the right to select the mayor but grants further liberty of the press the decree is a concession to the wince's some 1.200 subjects who recently demanded a consti tutional government bribed voted for percy mississippi legislator says he ac cepted ifotoj charge denied jack-so miss march 28 sensational testimony given before the hinds county grand jury by slate senator theodore ijilbo that he accepted a bribe ot ifo-lo from 1 c ijulauey of issaquena county to vote for 1-croy percy in the recent senatorial contest is to-day the sole topic of discussion iu legislative circles here kulaney denies that he gave a bribe a grand jury subpoena has been issued for governor noel swedish princess is born third child ol royal p;iir an noiiiiccd nt stockholm stockholm sweden march 2s crown princess gnstave adolph of sweden formerly princess margaret ofl conuaught gave birth to a daughter to day the other children of the crown prince and princess are prince gustavo i adolph born in 1906 and prince sigvarjl â– a year younger mrs spender-clay a mother special cnble to the examiner l.nmiux march _>. a ilnugbter v as horn to-day tc mrs spender-clay ,\ o e jfore her marriage was miss pauline asior she is the daughter of william waldo.-f astor supreme justice brewer drops dead end comes after night of study on legal problems with records in his hand : heart disease is blamed ; death likely to mean change in ruling by highest bench in important cases washington march 2s david tosiah brewer associate justice of the supreme court of the united states dropped dead in the bathroom of his home 1023 sixteenth street a few minutes after 11 o'clock to night heart disease is believed to have been the cause of death justice brewer apparently had been in the best of health he was seventy-three years old and had been a member of the supreme court since december 1889 he was born in smyrna asia minor where his parents were residing as missionaries he was a graduate of yale college he was appointed to the supreme bench from kan sas may affect important cases it is within the range of possibilities that the death of justice brewer will have far-reaching effects on important cases now pending before the supreme conrt justice brewer was one of the progressive members of the court and in clined to a liberal construction of the la ws he sat in both the tobacco and standard oil cases both of which are on the eve of being decided it has been the general expectation that the vote of the court in both the tobacco and standard ou cases would be close with justice brewer now dead there is a lively possibility that conditions may be ! reversed one way or the other oter the j decisions as they would have been ren j dered had justice brewer lived solicitor general i_loyd bowers is gen erally regarded as in line as successor to justice brewer overwork blamed for death close application to the work of the su preme court in the standard oil and tobacco cases undoubtedly hastened the death of the associate justice he bad been devoting himself ever since the recent argu ments to the study of the oi trust eases and he had a volume of the record of the case in his hand when death overtook him he had goiife into the bathroom to pre pare bis bath after having devoted the night to study a few minutes later mrs brewer second wife of the justice heard him feebly calling for aid when she reached him be had become unconscious he died before the physician dr h a taylor who was summoned arrived dr taylor declared death was due to heart failure justice brewer had been in his usual good health all day ami had taken his accustomed walk this afternoon district judge ashley m gould was summoned immediately by the family and took charge of affairs in the stricken household ; promoted under cleveland in 1870 he was elected to the supreme bench of kansas for a term of six years and was re-elected in 1870 and isb2 duriug president grover cleveland's first term he was appointed judge of the cir cuit court of the united states for the i eighth district where he remained until ' his appointment to the rmpreme bench of the united states in 1889 this was in ! december justice brewer was named to succeed associate justice stanley matthews re moved by death at the time of his ap pointinent justice brewer was in his tiftv 1 j second year he would have been seventy j i three bad he lived until june 20 next justice brewer was twice married his first wife died in the sixties leaving an only daughter t 0 comfort him his second i marriage took place in his sixty-fourth year when he was wed to miss emma m mott of burlington vt who was then i principal of the morse public school in i washington ; during his incumbency in office justice brewer gained the confidence of the great mass of american people he was out spoken in his opinions of public matters as much so as compatible with his station opposed delayed justice about six weeks ago he gave out a some what remarkable interview iu which he discussed without reservation the evils of delayed justice the remedy the character and mental requirements of good judges and lawyers and giving his views also ou public ownership of public utilities he of all his associates was the only one to come out flat-footed in favor of limiting the number and the grounds for appeal justice brewer was for woman suffrage and agains-t au income tax on wealth he was a man of broad learning and had a brilliant mind he held many positions of honor aside from ii,e judicial lie was president of the venezuelan boundary i commission appointed by president clevo ! land member of the arbitration tribunal to j settle boundary between british guiana j and venezuela orator at the bicentennial ! yale university 1901 president liticrna i tional congress ol lawyers and jurists i st louis 1904 held degree of ll i from i low college washburn college vale i'ni vcrsity state university of wisconsin u'ealeyan university university of ver mom and hnwdoin college in a public address iu i!h>7 justice brewer prophesied an age of marvels from 1010 to 1980 justice brewer had several clashes with former president roosevell when the lai ter as in office he created something of a sensation in 191 when be declared in 1 piinlii speed mat koosevell was play ii hide nnd seek will the presideutlii ! nomination lie said he would not vote for mr roosevelt's nomination if be bad a vote _>:, the matter justice 1'.r0 or was ihe second oldest member of the eohrt justice harlan only being his senior alexander moody slain by arsenic in food wife and coachman under investigation wealthy man who died in convulsions february 20 victim of plot says coroner __â€”_â€”_â€”- ________ ; for one month detectives have watched the home and dogged the footsteps of mrs anna moody her former coachman peter peterson and agnes hartwick her maid in an attempt to solve the mystery of the death of alexander moody brother-in-law of congressman william j moxley and secretary of - the moody & waters company bakers moody died after eating hamburger steak which was cooked for him by agnes hartwick on the order of mrs moody he was killed by arsenic and an examination of the meat which was not eaten showed that it contained enough of the poison to kill a dozen persons moody's stomach upon chemical analysis was found to contain enough arsenic to cause his death although moody died february 20 the investigation which ap pears to reveal one of the most complex murder problems that the po lice have ever faced was kept secret until yesterday then the search was made public just at the time the police were beginning to gather together and analyze evidence which they hoped would be strong enough to cause one or more arrests on a charge of murder it is probable now that no arrest will ever be made in the case as the police while morally certain that moody was murdered say their investigation has brought out no direct evidence against any of the persons suspected coroner convinced moody was murdered coroner hoffman last night maintained that his office and the po lice had worked up a good case and said that within a few days he hoped to be able to secure evidence which would cause the arrest of two persons we know that moody was murdered and we suspect that one or two and probably three persons had a hand in his poisoning said â€¢ the coroner i believe there wilt be arrests made in a few days which will cause a sensation all of yesterday and last night detectives swarmed around the moody home at 210 seeley avenue for one month the police depart ment has kept track of every inmate of the house and of every person who entered or left it the evidence they have gathered in typewrit ten form covers several hundred pages , all this matter is in the hands of the coroner the coroner while refusing to name outright the persons whom he suspects of the mur der says he is pretty certain who did it but with all of his sus â– picions and evidence he has refused so far to order the police to â– â– make arrests assistant chief schuettler who has had charge of the police end of the inquiry also refuses to take the responsibility of placing the suspects in cells moody only one to eat the poisoned meat after moody tlied the maid who served the hamburger steak was slightly ill she said she had dipped bread in the meat gravy and had eaten it but did not eat any of the steak no other member of the moody family ate any of the meat on february 0 the other members of the family are mrs moody a laughter florence sixteen years old and two sons frank and alex ander jr aged twenty-three and twenty-one years in a statement to the coroner mrs moody said that no member of the family with the exception of mr moody ever ate moat for breakfast one of l lie strange features of the case according to coroner hoff man is the fact that agnes hartwick the maid after being told that a poison victim and his icifc â€” photograph showing them white driving â€” and their residence which is said lo have been a scene of revelry nightly since his death a month ago z%f x^?